Michelle Keep

We just published a novel inspired by a Gramsci quote. "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters." I can't do a lot to change the world. I hope people can relate to our art and that it offers solidarity. jmkeep.com/project/the-...

Took all my ritalin and concerta and had a big cup of coffee and I'm fuckin' falling asleep at my desk here.

This slopper has 1073 books (and no it's not bestselling author Cora Reilly) www.amazon.com/stores/Cora-...

This is from 2014 btw.

I sure hope they integrate this app into every website and search engine! While they're at it, let's value the company's stock at a trillion dollars. That way, the economy is tied to their success. I can see no downside whatsoever!

This App Turns Your Photos into Music If You Want to Do That For Some Reason

"A Face In The Crowd" blew my mind to watch! Grew up with the Andy Griffith Show, and watching Matlock with my grandfather. So to see him play this uncannily on-point, sleazy, duplicitous villain is WILD. Amazing breadth in his acting chops! The film is intensely, uncomfortably relevant too.

The other day I saw someone say ai is good because it's the most revolutionary tool the working class has ever had access to because apparently they forgot that it's a subscription to a tool owned by the capitalist class and will never be able to be used as a tool of the revolution.

At my last job, we had interns. I was 30 and they were 22 and just finishing their bachelors and I felt like I was babysitting. I once had to tell one not to put binders all over the floor because it was a tripping hazard and he laughed at me and I had to say "No, it's an OSHA violation. Stop."

Sweet Jesus. I'm about the same age now and cannot imagine *wanting* to date someone that young. And if I had such intense loser energy as to be unappealing to women my own age? I would take that to the grave with me.

"Washington claims Cuba poses a national security threat to the United States." Why does media keep repeating this? The US only said this obvious, absurd lie, after smugly declaring the real reason: they want to conquer Cuba and exploit it again. There is no good reason to help the lie!

Due diligence? No I said "dude ill-igence," I was talking about the Beastie Boys!

I just knocked over my full glass of water at the dinner table trying to look at a video @jmkeep.bsky.social was trying to show me. Then in my confused rush to clean it up threw her phone across the table. Doing great.

Can report nothing has improved. @jmkeep.bsky.social just said: "This week has been... a real... today." And I'm passing out periodically.

After our flu/COVID shots, @jmkeep.bsky.social and I are both floored today. Neither of our brains are working. But she keeps insisting on trying to explain complex publishing topics to me. While routinely using the exact opposite word of what she means. It's all going great here.

This is like being a writer and just learning about the letter J or something.

Pyrography. Making art by burning images into wood. It was therapeutic. You had to move at a slow, consistent speed to do things properly. Forced you to find some calm and inner peace. Also took me back to how I used to sketch, before nerve issues ruined my ability to do so.

Demanding that children get used to being touched against their will by relatives is heinous. The vast majority of abuse is within families! You're teaching children to be silent and accept sexual abuse.

My abuser, a close family member, would force gratuitous hugs and kisses on me in front of others. And they'd all laugh at my discomfort and think it was so cute. This taught me as a little child to accept sexual abuse in silence. Because nobody cares if I'm touched against my will.

We keep getting these reminders that journalists don't know what the hell they're talking about. Like Politico doing a piece on their discovering FDR existed. The endless string of tech journalists who understand nothing, they just worship tech and tech billionaires.

This is the rational stance based on material reality.

Snuff video going around including news sites of a priest dying on live cam, please don't watch it, it's awful.

The "what is AI legitimately good at?" discussion skips the obvious and truest answer: Scamming. It's a fucking miracle tool for scammers.

Other than the disability? Well unlike him, it's not my job to look like this, firstly. And secondly, the personal trainer, assistants and steroid cocktails are probably out of my price range.

The implication here is that if you tax billionaire wealth it just vanishes into the void. Instead of funding schools, hospitals, roads, science, etc..

"The Heedless Horseman" was his original name. Which explains how he became headless.

Would you rather have a cool gold chain or talk MMA with Rogan? Thanks to the Mark VR App, you don’t have to decide!

Saw someone say the purified water refill stations in grocery stores is a scam and it's just tap water but as someone who lives in a town with very tannin-tinted water? No, that is just demonstrably false. I know what our tap water looks and smells like and it ain't the same.

Hey Newfoundland & Labrador, time to book your vaccines. They're not going through the Pomelo platform for online booking, but using mygov / my health this year. www.timefortheshot.ca

Hey Newfoundland & Labrador, time to book your vaccines. They're not going through the Pomelo platform for online booking, but using mygov / my health this year. www.timefortheshot.ca

Chat poopy pee, what are my thoughts?

I think this got a big kick-off when Americans found out Chinese people don't pay property tax. And actually pay very little tax at all. 0-2% for the vast majority. But what got left out of that discussion is the hefty business taxes and public ownership of major industries to fund services.

What do people even think a pipeline does? It replaces oil transport jobs with an automated delivery.

Dietrich and Fabio are the good shit, hook it into my veins. #fefw #fireemblem

I love Garth Marenghi, and one reason is that while it pokes fun at genre fiction / authors, it never feels like it's being done with malice or snobbery. The jokes are coming from people who love the genre, and Matthew Holness becoming a phenomenal horror director & writer proved my instincts right.

Found an earwig at the door and decided to pick it up and toss it outside but my nails are so long and the earwig got stuck under the nail and I would rather that over seeing or hearing AI slop.

I hate the US. Fuck this shithole.

With friends like American liberals, who needs enemies?

If you use "AI" to brainstorm you're a hack with no appreciation for the craft. You're asking the word averager to give you story ideas? Pathetic.

If you wonder why there is such a big push from the stores for audiobooks, it's because the royalties absolutely SUCK. Even though @jmkeep.bsky.social and I take on all the costs ourselves, and cut out the middlemen as much as possible, we still get basically nothing for them. The stores keep it all

My position on generative AI remains unchanged as well. In other words, fuck off.

So the minutes of the @societyofauthors.bsky.social management committee are publicly available, and because I love to procrastinate, I went through them back to January 2025 and couldn't find any mention of this charter. societyofauthors.org/document-tag...

"We are deeply concerned that people within the industry are using generative AI in the shadows, where it cannot be monitored or its use and impacts fully understood." No, they should be embarrassed. They should hide this embarrassing criminal act they're doing. It's good they're ashamed.

This message betrays the crux of the issue, notice how many times they mention publishers. Too many supposed writer organizations are, in truth, publisher lobbies. Using the legitimacy authors provide to push publisher interests, which are not shared with writers OR readers.